β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.
β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.